of two or more words.”—­Mur. et al. cor. “The infinitive mood is often made absolute, or used independently of the rest of the sentence.”—­Lowth’s Gram., 80; Churchill’s, 143; Bucke’s, 96; Merchant’s, 92.  “For the great satisfaction of the reader, we shall present a variety of false constructions.”—­Murray cor. “For your satisfaction, I shall present you a variety of false constructions.”—­ Ingersoll cor. “I shall here present [to] you a scale of derivation.”—­ Bucke cor. “These two manners of representation in respect to number.”—­Lowth and Churchill cor. “There are certain adjectives which seem to be derived from verbs, without any variation.”—­Lowth cor. “Or disqualify us for receiving instruction or reproof from others.”—­Murray cor. “For being more studious than any other pupil in the school.”—­ Id. “Misunderstanding the directions, we lost our way.”—­Id. “These people reduced the greater part of the island under their own power.”—­ Id. “The principal accent distinguishes one syllable of a word from the rest.”—­Id. “Just numbers are in unison with the human mind.”—­Id. “We must accept of sound in stead of sense.”—­Id. “Also, in stead of consultation, he uses consult.”—­Priestley cor. “This ablative seems to be governed by a preposition understood.”—­W.  Walker cor. “Lest my father hear of it, by some means or other.”—­Id. “And, besides, my wife would hear of it by some means.”—­Id. “For insisting on a requisition so odious to them.”—­Robertson cor. “Based on the great self-evident truths of liberty and equality.”—­Manual cor. “Very little knowledge of their nature is acquired from the spelling-book.”—­Murray cor. “They do not cut it off:  except from a few words; as, due, duly, &c.”—­Id. “Whether passing at such time, or then finished.”—­Lowth cor. “It hath disgusted hundreds with that confession.”—­Barclay cor. “But they have egregiously fallen into that inconveniency.”—­Id. “For is not this, to set nature at work?”—­Id. “And, surely, that which should set all its springs at work, is God.”—­Atterbury cor. “He could not end his treatise without a panegyrie on modern learning.”—­Temple cor. “These are entirely independent of the modulation of the voice.”—­J.  Walker cor. “It is dear at a penny.  It is cheap at twenty pounds.”—­W.  Walker cor. “It will be despatched, on most occasions, without resting.”—­Locke cor. “Oh the pain, the bliss of dying!”—­Pope.  “When the objects or the facts are presented to him.”—­R.  C. Smith cor. “I will now present you a synopsis.”—­Id.